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THIS AWESOME PERIODIC TABLE TELLS YOU HOW TO ACTUALLY USE ALL THOSE ELEMENTS

Thanks to high school, we’ve all got a pretty good
idea about what’s on the periodic table. But whether you’re looking at
something common like calcium, iron, and carbon, or something more obscure like
krypton and antimony, how well do you know their functions? Could you name just
one practical application for vanadium or ruthenium?

Lucky for us, Keith Enevoldsen from
elements.wlonk.com has come up with this awesome periodic table that gives you
at least one example for every single element (except for those weird
superheavy elements that don’t actually exist in nature). There’s thulium for
laser eye surgery, cerium for lighter flints, and krypton for flashlights.
You’ve got strontium for fireworks, and xenon for high-intensity lamps inside
lighthouses.

Oh and that very patriotic element, americium? We use
that in smoke detectors.

First unveiled in 1945 during the Manhattan Project,
americium is produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons in a nuclear
reactor. The resulting americium is radioactive, and while the tiny amounts of
americium dioxide (AmO2) used in smoke detector produces alpha radiation to
sniff out a fire, it will deliver approximately zero radiation to anyone living
nearby.

I kinda want to tell you all about rubidium and how
we use it in the world’s most accurate time-keeping devices, and how niobium
can help make trains levitate,but you should just check out the periodic table
for yourself. We’ve included a sneak-peak below, but for the real interactive
experience, click here to try it out.

You can also download the PDF if you’ve got a class
to teach, or maybe you just want to be great and put it on your bathroom door.
And if this whole exercise has made you realise just how rusty you’ve become
with your science basics, check out AsapSCIENCE’s Periodic Table Song below.

We’d like to see a better way of memorising the
periodic table - it's even got the four brand new elements that earned a
permanent spot in the seventh row back in January (which unfortunately have no
cool uses outside of atomic research).

Check it out:

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